Microsoft will use its Mobile DevCon later this month to talk up its next release of its SQL Server CE platform, version 3.0, code-named "Laguna."

Like Yukon - the next version of the full-fledged SQL Server release - Laguna is unlikely to debut before mid-2005. Microsoft officials acknowledged earlier this week that Yukon won't ship by the end of 2004, as they had hoped, and will now be out in the first half of 2005.